In celebration of a fourth year of innovation and creativity at Festibelly here is a free mix from longtime festibelly cohort Fear of Theydon who is curating our new Treehouse DJ booth which can be found nestled amongst the canopies of the New Forest. Located atop a hill overlooking the whole festival, think of it as the hippest disco in the Ewok Village.
Kicking the day off from the Nest will be Southsea’s Handsome Dave Rocker; esteemed purveyor of the very finest in old school Hip Hop, Electro, 60s Prog and other classics that are so rad, you’ll be bummed out you weren’t born in a different era. Continuing on a vintage tip will be Sunday Best’s in-house beat-wizard Low-Fro, who will be delivering us a special one-off dusty attic Motown & Disco set [don't miss him DJing elsewhere at night time too, if you want a masterclass in deep Future Garage riddims]. Esteemed Festibelly & Bestival residents Duncan and Jonny of Sombrero Sound System take the reigns next for a set of tried and tested party bangers, old and new. Reigning champions of every DJ soundclash they’ve ever competed in, you know you can trust these guys to bring the joy!
Moving things into a headier territory comes the next Festibelly resident DJ Leeland, who brews us up a concoction of Disco so cosmic you will need to bring your massive binoculars to capture the entirety of its true magnificence. Voyaging deeper still come Danny & Tom Psychemagik, who grace the decks for a very eclectic afternoon set, taking us into realms of wonked out Psychedelia and the kind of vintage musical oddities that have come to characterise their own sound, before they enter night mode and tear up the decks with something stronger elsewhere a little later in the evening. Another renowned cratedigger whom we are very lucky to have onboard this year is Cardiff-based Producer/DJ Channel Swimmer, who composes all of his tracks from samples of other artists’ music. Think Avalanches, J Dilla, DJ Shadow and the Go Team! all drinking Pina Colada by the big swimming pool in the sky and you have the sound of his music in visual form. Expect a mix of his influences and his own productions in this UK festival exclusive DJ set.
Boasting an eclectic mix of musical genres and disseminated by the cream of the uk’s current bright young music makers, evening sets at the Treehouse will be serving up an equally eclectic mix of audio-chicanery The late evening set is headed up by Sunday Best resident Producer/DJ Fear of Theydon will serve up a melodic entrée of anything from Shoegaze to Techno, depending on the toxicity of the dancefloor, as he warms up for new 2011 Ones To Watch duo Figures – an exhilarating partnership between Neo-Acid-House maestro Jamie Blanco and the wizard of Sparkle-House James Delay, who together will be showcasing their new joint productions, a wealth of their own individual works and other tunes currently floating their boat, which will make for an extremely danceable 90 minutes.
Taking over from these chaps is Festibelly resident DJ Mojo Filter whose sublime, dusty desert re-edits of everyone from Nina Simone to Johnny Cash to The Bees and beyond have gained him much-deserved kudos amongst some the finest of today’s DJ’s and blogs – this guy is truly one of the most versatile and experienced DJ’s we know and he never fails to take the party up, up and away!
And finally we reach this year’s Nest headliner, Throwing Snow aka Ross Tones, an individual steadily gaining himself a rightful seat alongside Four Tet, Gold Panda, Joy Orbison and other such open-minded producers at the head table of the pulsing contemporary UK scene that meshes together atmospheric Two-Step, Post-Dubstep, Glitch and House influences. His supreme single ‘Un Vingt’ and the various remixes he has been commissioned to produce in the last year have caused a serious stir in blog land. You don’t need to look far online to discover a vast body of uber-high quality tracks that many producers would be happy to be able to claim just a fraction of as their own, then hang up the production gloves for good! We are extremely excited about this closing set and hope you come to join us for the sublime, skanking late night antics. Big up!
http://www.mixcloud.com/fearoftheydon/fear-of-theydons-festibelly-2011-mix-up/